{"id":16,"date":"2013-03-24T11:08:49","date_gmt":"2013-03-24T11:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kaverma.fi\/?p=16"},"modified":"2019-04-05T13:07:51","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T11:07:51","slug":"separator-opus-iii-carelia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaverma.fi\/?p=16","title":{"rendered":"Separator, opus IV & III, “Carelia”, 2012-13"},"content":{"rendered":"

Separator, Opus IV & III, Helsinki-Joensuu
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After the war (1939\u20131945), more than 400 000 Finns were left homeless, and the housing problem called for an efficient solution. In single-family housing both in rural and urban areas, the answer was the type-planned veteran house, the one-and-a-half-story building that remained the dominant type of single-family house until the 1960s. Attitudes towards veteran houses have changed drastically in the course of time: \u201dOur fragmentary time and culture and, on the other hand, the immense emotional significance of common reconstruction for the nation recovering from the burdens of war have created a sharp distinction between the old and the new: our idea of the veteran house has transformed from a practical mass product into an almost mythical phenomenon representing the traditional values of Finnish identity, masculinity, happy family and proper house-building.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n